Schee, Lewis

SCHEE

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Date: 7/2/2021 at 20:37:32

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.673

LEWIS SCHEE
Lewis Schee is one of the leading and successful business men of Warren County, having extensive investments in farming property and also interested in banking at Indianola and Milo. He is a man of keen discernment and of marked enterprise, who seems to have accomplished at every point of his suc­cessful career the possibilities for success at that point.His judgment is at all times sound and reliable and his business interests have been most carefully controlled. Now making his home in Indianola, he is, however, a native of Marion County, Iowa, born on the 15th of April 1853. His parents were Alexander and Alice Schee, of whom mention is made in connection with the sketch of J. F. Schee on another page of this volume. He was reared to farm life and attended the country schools. On attaining his majority he chose as a life work the occupation which had claimed much of his time and attention in his boyhood and was actively associated with farming interests until 1893, when he removed to Indianola. He is still, however, the owner of valuable farm property, including more than six hundred acres in this part of the state and he also has interests in other land. He has been a large feeder of cattle and is still extensively engaged in business, his sales annually reaching a profitable figure. He has likewise banking interests, being now a stockholder in the Indianola Banking Company, of which he is the vice president and he is also financially interested in the Bank of Milo.
In September, 1877, Mr. Schee was married to Miss Manece Long, who was born in Illinois in October, 1856, and is a daughter of John and Jane Long, who on coming to Warren County settled in Otter Township, casting in their lot with its pioneer residents. Mr. and Mrs. Schee had six children: Myrtle, the wife of E. B. Igo, a resident of White Oak Township; Jennie, who has departed this life; Mabel; Clara; Lewis R.; and Elmer.
In his political views Mr. Schee is a Republican and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He is now serving as a member of the city council and is interested in all that pertains to the municipal welfare or progress of state and nation. In community affairs he gives hearty coopera­tion to plans and measures which are calculated to prove of public benefit and is recognized as a citizen of value, while in business circles he enjoys the entire confidence of those with whom he has had business dealings and the admiration of all who know aught of his successful and honorable career.